I don't think a single person I know has said anything OTHER than jokes about Bezos and his mission, and how much of a dorky tool he is.
The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
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Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#32I’m personally rather bored with the hobbies and tastes of these modern tech billionaires like Jeff and Elon. A few years back, there was a total global circumnavigation of the world in a solar powered 2 person airplane based in Switzerland, I forget the project name. This thing did not have to land to charge batteries but could stay aloft indefinitely, albeit at a very floppy wing surface area to weight ratio, and t…
>juvenile pissing contests like Mr. Branson and Mr. Bezos pursue This is really all it is, it's rich guys performing for other rich guys while the rest of us fight for scraps. It's sickening to me that so many people defend the honor of rich CEOs like Bezos, Branson, Musk, Gates, etc because they truly think that more money = better than.
Musk might be a weirdo, but SpaceX as a whole is not smoke and mirrors. Falcon rockets and Dragon capsules are a tested, reliable technology developed for reasonable money. When in doubt, compare their development budgets, timetables and flight record to those of the Space Launch System.
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#33I’m personally rather bored with the hobbies and tastes of these modern tech billionaires like Jeff and Elon. A few years back, there was a total global circumnavigation of the world in a solar powered 2 person airplane based in Switzerland, I forget the project name. This thing did not have to land to charge batteries but could stay aloft indefinitely, albeit at a very floppy wing surface area to weight ratio, and t…
SpaceX is a profitable business, especially with StarLink. They essentially got rival satellite operators to buy the rockets they then re-use to launch their payloads. And they managed to underbid everyone in the space launch business for government contracts (Even factoring in R&D costs the Dragon is incredibly cheap).
Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are just hobbies for the rich, but SpaceX might bring real benefits to "average joes" (just like the GPS system did).
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Inequality is a strong psychological issue. No amount of correct math and logic can offset that. We're wired to despise those who have more than others, especially when others are struggling and especially when those who have show off. You can point out objective things like that contemporary billionaires are nothing like super-rich monarchy or noblemen in the past, who literally didn't have to work one day of their…
I understand what you're saying, but I don't see why it should be an excuse. After all, xenophobia and racism are natural human behaviours as well, (and not just human behaviour) but they shouldn't be tolerated, and we shouldn't promote policies that encourage them.
it's not an excuse; as with xenophobia and racism, these are phenomena which have to be understood and not dismissed. You cannot solve racism by just stating "races don't exist, here's the DNA evidence etc etc" perhaps implying that you're just an ignorant redneck if you don't understand science. Even if said science is solid, some people will not be moved by it because their bias doesn't stem from a misunderstanding of science (or math) but from somewhere deeper, and you don't have to excuse it in order to understanding and use that understanding to counter it.
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
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Here's what I learned when I cancelled mine: when you cancel, you will still have full use of Prime benefits for the time remaining until the subscription runs out. So if you really want to cancel, there's no reason not to just do it now. You'll still be able to use Prime until April regardless.
In other words, you can cancel the renewal without cancelling the current year
Yes. I have a problem with verbosity, and you said it with much greater clarity and brevity than I managed. Thank you!
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Inequality is a strong psychological issue. No amount of correct math and logic can offset that. We're wired to despise those who have more than others, especially when others are struggling and especially when those who have show off. You can point out objective things like that contemporary billionaires are nothing like super-rich monarchy or noblemen in the past, who literally didn't have to work one day of their…
I think math can help. Even if we stole 10B from Bezos and gave it out equally to every US citizen... Its ~$30. Is this life changing for anybody in the US? If so what percent. Most beggars on the street clear more than $30 a day, some make $30 a hour! So yeah, common core has failed us, and the inability to understand numbers is a problem. I do this nearly every time somebody is upset somebody else has money. One ti…
> Even if we stole 10B from Bezos and gave it out equally to every US citizen... Its ~$30.
I mean, obviously it's gonna look small if we fixate on Bezos specifically. If we "stole" a flat $1B from every American billionaire and paid it out equally to every US citizen, that stimulus jumps up to $1,996.70. If we "stole" all the money from every billionaire, that'd jump up further to $12,569.61.
We can go further. The top 1% of Americans have a combined net worth of $34.2 trillion. If we "stole" all of that, the resulting stimulus would be a comfy $102,842.28.
> I did the math, it would have been something like 2.27 a week more for all the employees.
$122.58/year could very well make a considerable difference to someone barely scraping by. And again, you're fixating on one Walmart executive; what about the other executives who likely received similar bonuses? VPs? Middle managers?
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World governments spent $35 trillion last year. That's annual spend. Why do people on the internet act like all of our social ails could be resolved if only we could tax Bezos and spend $35.01 trillion instead? It's seems governments have a budgeting problem, not a funding problem.
Inequality is a strong psychological issue. No amount of correct math and logic can offset that. We're wired to despise those who have more than others, especially when others are struggling and especially when those who have show off. You can point out objective things like that contemporary billionaires are nothing like super-rich monarchy or noblemen in the past, who literally didn't have to work one day of their…
>humanity is clearly not a uniform bunch
Humanity is not normal, but it is normally distributed!
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
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I think math can help. Even if we stole 10B from Bezos and gave it out equally to every US citizen... Its ~$30. Is this life changing for anybody in the US? If so what percent. Most beggars on the street clear more than $30 a day, some make $30 a hour! So yeah, common core has failed us, and the inability to understand numbers is a problem. I do this nearly every time somebody is upset somebody else has money. One ti…
> Even if we stole 10B from Bezos and gave it out equally to every US citizen... Its ~$30. I mean, obviously it's gonna look small if we fixate on Bezos specifically. If we "stole" a flat $1B from every American billionaire and paid it out equally to every US citizen, that stimulus jumps up to $1,996.70. If we "stole" all the money from every billionaire, that'd jump up further to $12,569.61. We can go further. The t…
lol.
If you made the top %1 liquidate all their assets to give to others everything would stop working. You would create more problems than ever.
Somebody would have to buy the assets, and because we are doing away with anybody who would have the sort of money to buy the assets, you would likely deadlock long before you would get 34 trillion out of the system. Like its mind boggling what you said. Where would this money come from? Other 1%ers who would then have to sale their assets?
Folks, Net Worth is not tangible, and even less tangible if you required a mass amount of folks to liquidate. It would simply drive prices down to a point where they were no longer in the 1% and then our economy would simply pop.
Every major system that moves money (this is what we want) would grind to a halt, and the folks you want to steal money for would simply have no job and have no cash flow.
But beyond that, stealing money assets, or even in this case "net worth" is immoral.
Bezos was a nobody driving a Honda Civic, folks just mad he drives a rocket now.
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Imagine if we taxed the enormous wealth of billionaires and used it for the good of many in society instead of inflating the ego of a single person. Our society is sick and I don't think people will stand for this level of inequality much longer.
World governments spent $35 trillion last year. That's annual spend. Why do people on the internet act like all of our social ails could be resolved if only we could tax Bezos and spend $35.01 trillion instead? It's seems governments have a budgeting problem, not a funding problem.
Assuming the figure is well-sourced, and given the time since the spending occurred, I'd be interested to know where this $35 trillion has ended up (not necessarily just who it directly went to, but where it's parked now and how it got there).
I know that's a tall order, but I think governments should be accountable to how they've invested their citizen's money and how those investments are doing.
Also should be pointed out many countries greatly expanded their deficit as part of Covid measures.
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Funny I wrote wegmans supermarket asking if a product packed in type 7 plastic could be packed in 1, 2, or 5 (recyclable) and got a nice reply in 30 min. Does Amazon really care what answers people give? Would dicks sporting goods? Wegmans at least wants to look as if they care. Planet fitness once told the NYT that they’d never gotten customer feedback on an issue but they make it so hard to find the form that they…
If you're writing to a corporate office, that's different. But the people at an individual store have no real control and can only forward your objections up the line.
I just wrote to Dick's about it.